List of countries by gold production
(Redirected from List of countries by mine production of gold)
This is a list of countries by gold production in 2022.[1]
South Africa is the world's largest gold producer. In 2007, increasing production from other countries and declining production from South Africa meant that also China became the largest producer, although no country has approached the scale of South Africa's period of peak production during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1970, South Africa produced 995 tonnes or 32 million ounces of gold, two-thirds of the world's production of 47.5 million ounces.[2] Production figures are for primary mine production. In the US, for example, for the year 2011, secondary sources (new and old scrap) exceeded primary production.[3]
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References[edit]
- ^ "Gold" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries. January 2023. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
- ^ "South African production: important but no longer globally significant". World Gold Council. 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
- ^ George, Micheal W. (28 February 2014). "Gold". Mineral commodity summaries 2014 (PDF). Reston, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey. pp. 66–67. ISBN 9781411337657. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 6, 2019. Retrieved 6 November 2019.